Thursday, November 17, 2011

Paper Projects

Just a few minutes down the road from me is a wonderland of fun... well a paper outlet any way. Or more specifically the S.E.I scrapbook outlet. (1717 South 450 West Logan, UT 84321). So FUN! I just can't say "no" to darling paper for 10cents a piece. Every time my sister Wendy is in town we seem to make a trip there. Here are a few projects we have been working on together.


Paper Flowers and Matching Cards
I used a template from Stampin' Up for the cards.
I found instructions for the flowers at
http://eighteen25.blogspot.com/2010/09/todays-guest-lil-luna.html
They made Halloween ones, but I though fall ones would be fun, and I could have them out on display for longer. I'm thinking Christmas ones would be darling too, or Spring ones for Easter... oh the possibilities.

They were so fun to make I decided to make more flowers to add to my collection.

Paper Monograms
I love this idea! I'm decorating "H's" for the different holidays and seasons to hang in our entry way. Fortunately H is reversible. This one is for fall, on the back I have made a Halloween one. More picts will be posted later when I've finished.

They are easy to make. I buy the letters at Hobby Lobby. The paper is obviously from. S.E.I. I simply use spray adhesive on the back of a piece of paper. I then carefully place it on the letter H. Next I take the metal file from Ryan's tool box to get all of the extra paper off. I can get a nice clean cut this way. To finish it up I add embellishments, hot-glue on a ribbon, and call it good.

Paper Pumpkins
So fun, So inexpensive, and So CUTE!
Wendy and I saw these at S.E.I and simply had to make some. Using a variety of papers we trimmed them down into thin strips of varying sizes. We then hot-glued them to the top and bottom of fake pumpkins. BUT THEN... with the help of Wendy's hubby Chris we figured out how to make them without a fake pumpkin underneath!


We simply cut out two, 2" circles and placed a bamboo skewer through them, leaving 3 or 4 inches between the two circles. We also left some skewer on top to use for the stem. Once the circles were secured with hot-glue, we were able to glue the papers to them to form the pumpkin.

This one has a pumpkin underneath.


This one does not.
To cover the skewer on top we just wrapped paper around it and added curling strips of paper for vines.
You can have a lot of inexpensive fun with paper! I can't wait to get going on my Christmas projects!

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